{"product_id":"pretend-im-your-friend-9781938126420","title":"Pretend I'm Your Friend","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sister s darkest secret is revealed at her brother s wedding. A woman with extrasensory visions accidentally gives her philandering husband her blessing. A dying mother wishes her cancer was her daughters, not hers. \"Pretend I m Your Friend\" lays bare the fear, loss, and pain of love, sex, and family life in eleven crisp, engaging, and startlingly funny, elegantly entwined stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMB Caschetta is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novel \u003ci\u003eMiracle Girls\u003c\/i\u003e (Engine Books, 2014) won The 2015 USA Best Book Award for Literary Fiction, a Gold Medal in Spiritual Books from the Independent Publisher Awards (IPPYs), and an IndieFAB 2015 Book of the Year in the LGBT category. \u003ci\u003eMiracle Girls\u003c\/i\u003e was also a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and a \u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Pick-of-the-Week, where it was hailed as \"darkly beautiful.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is the recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship and the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e called her first book of stories \u003ci\u003eLucy on the West Coast\u003c\/i\u003e (Alyson Books) \"a spectacular collection.\" Her non-fiction has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Creative Non-Fiction, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as in anthologies by The Feminist Press, The Other Press, St. Martin's, and Plume, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStories from \u003ci\u003ePretend I'm Your Friend\u003c\/i\u003e have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Mississippi Review, The Red Rock Review, Thieves Jargon, Ecclectica, 3: AM Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBloom, \u003c\/i\u003e among other literary journals. Select stories have also been awarded The Seattle Fiction Review Prize (winner), The Mississippi Review Fiction Prize (runner-up), and The Iowa Review Fiction Prize (finalist). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMB lives in Massachusetts with her spouse and standard poodle and is currently working on a book about being disinherited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Engine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50446589952274,"sku":"9781938126420","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25c83139-7161-424e-9635-92be0d9e3a6b.jpg?v=1729709011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pretend-im-your-friend-9781938126420","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}